Nederland to run more plays under center on offense

The Nederland football team will run more plays from under center with a fullback and a tight end this season, said head coach Larry Neumann.

Sometimes, they’ll even use two tight ends.

Nederland has been in a spread offense the last five seasons, running all of its plays from under the shotgun. The Bulldogs will go back to what they were doing during Neumann’s first 13 seasons as head coach.

“We have a good combination of players in those positions and we know what personnel you need to run that offense successfully because that’s what we had been doing for so long,” Neumann said.

Nederland will still keep portions of its spread offense and won’t stop running plays out of it.

“We’re not abandoning that completely,” Neumann said. “All that spread stuff we were running was absolutely essential for us to be doing. It was the right thing for us to be doing at the time. Our personnell has changed.”

Brett Brown is the fullback, for now. Carson Raines, who started four games at quarterback last season, will enter his junior year as the starter.